An expanded focus on the potential beneficial influence of work on health and well-being can provide a complementary expansion to the traditional occupational health and safety paradigm. Traditionally, occupational health and safety research has focused primarily on understanding the causes of disease and on developing strategies for limiting or mitigating risk. Positive working conditions have been associated with fostering worker well-being, such as supervisor support and leadership behaviors coworker support decision latitude, job and schedule control and autonomy positive organizational culture opportunities for advancement and fair pay. All of these circumstances are likely to have detrimental impacts on health and well-being. Burnout and substance use, such as alcohol dependence and opioid misuse, are on the increase in many industries. With current technologies and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the lines between work and non-work commitments are blurring. Many people work long hours, experience work overload, have excessive emotional and cognitive job demands, and are exposed to hazardous and stressful working conditions. Exposures to specific conditions of work-physical, organizational, and psychosocial-not only contribute to injury and increase the risk of ill-health and mental distress but may also be instrumental in fostering well-being. Work plays a major role in shaping health and well-being thus, employment is a well-recognized social determinant of health and a leading health indicator for the United States’ Healthy People 2030 initiative. Work is a central human life function, with workers, on average, spending over one-third of their waking hours performing work-related activities. Individual items demonstrated face validity and good cognitive response properties and may be used independently from the questionnaire. The Thriving from Work Questionnaire will be subjected to psychometric testing and item reduction in future studies. We ultimately identified, developed and/or modified 87 candidate questionnaire items mapped to these attributes that performed well in cognitive testing in demographically and occupationally diverse workers. Thriving from Work was conceptualized into 37 attributes across seven dimensions: psychological, emotional, social, work–life integration, basic needs, experience of work, and health.
THRIVE MEANING SYNONYM FULL
Through this process, we defined Thriving from Work as the state of positive mental, physical, and social functioning in which workers’ experiences of their work and working conditions enable them to thrive in their overall lives, contributing to their ability to achieve their full potential in their work, home, and community. The purpose of this report is to describe the qualitative methods used to develop the candidate items for a novel measure of Thriving from Work through a multi-step iterative process including: a literature review, workshop, interviews with experts, and cognitive testing of the candidate items. Workers’ thriving is directly influenced by their job design, work environment and organization. Work is a major contributor to our health and well-being.
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